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After South Korea and Sweden, the pink version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is heading to the UK. The device is available for pre-ordering from two retailers, Very.co.uk and Phones 4U. The first one is selling the unlocked unit for whopping 499 GBP (about $760), saying that orders will be shipped “within 7 days.”…
There’s money to be made in app recommendations with AppTap raising $4 million to expand its service. The round was led by Syncom Venture Partners with existing investor New Atlantic Ventures also participating. The cash will be used to improve the service, which provides more than 150 million app recommendations per month across a network…
Samsung is a huge company that employs roughly 350,000 people. They got to their dominant position by investing in technology that would let them expand into new fields, their most successful bet being the memory chips that are inside everything from your mobile phone to the solid state drive in your new laptop. This year…
Here’s one for mobile developers. With jQ.Mobi, a new open source mobile development framework, you can quickly create HTML5-based sites and apps using familiar jQuery-based functions. Touted as 2.5X faster than desktop jQuery and much smaller to download (only 3K vs. 36K), JQ.Mobi is made with particular focus on delivering an “identically high quality user…
Want to the 3G-enabled Asus Transformer Prime? Well, you can forget about it – Asus said it won’t release a 3G version of the existing Transformer Prime tablet. According to FocusTaiwan, “no such product exists on its [Asus’] current roadmap.” Now you could hope that the upcoming version of the tablet turned notebook, Transformer Prime…
Whether you use your smartphone so much that you often end up walking into lamp poles because you’re so damn distracted, or you occasionally check your email throughout the day when you have some down time, you know that today’s ridiculously fast mobile computers that easily slide in the front pocket of your skinny jeans…
Canada’s Telus will get the LTE-based Samsung Galaxy Note and the carrier already prepared a page dedicated to the big smartphone/tablet device. Unfortunately, the mentioned page doesn’t say anything about the launch date or price. We are, however, pretty confident most folks will get this bad boy on a three-year customer agreement, since its off-contract…
China Mobile has started building what it claims to be the world’s largest single site call center. When completed, the new center will house some 20,000 desks in the city of Luoyang in central China’s Henan province. Located in the Luoyang Economic Development Zone, the center covers an area of almost 710,700 square meters, with…
Lv Qianhao, Head of ZTE’s Handset Strategy, recently gave an interview to Retuers where he revealed some of the company’s ambitions for this year and beyond. First up is smartphones. The company predicted that they would ship 12 million of them in 2011, but they apparently “far exceeded” that goal. That’s a bit vague to…
Late last year ASUS announced the Transformer Prime, the first Android tablet to use NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 chip. They said it would ship before Christmas, and it did … but in numbers so small that you can’t really say that it sold in any significant volume. What’s holding things up? Some folks…